Sr QA Automation Test Engineer

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

We are the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco—public servants with a mission to advance the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems to build a stronger economy for all Americans. We are a community-engaged bank, and are committed to understanding and serving the vibrant, expansive communities of the Twelfth District. That means we seek and appreciate new perspectives. We respect people for what they do and for who they are. We build opportunities to learn and grow. When you join the SF Fed, you become part of a diverse team united in its purpose to promote an economy that works for everyone.
In this role of Sr Automation Test Engineer, you will design, develop, and implement high quality test scenarios and automated scenarios using the latest automation tools like AccelQ, UI Path and Power Automate and custom scripts. You will work closely with solution leads, business analysts and product owners to understand business needs and requirements. You will work closely with other Digital Delivery team members, members of Federal Reserve National IT organizations, and business liaisons.
We empower our people to balance their life and work responsibilities. That’s why we offer a flexible hybrid work model that allows you to collaborate with office colleagues on some days, and work from home on others.

Responsibilities:

• Integrate AccelQ with our CI/CD pipelines which may include crafting new infrastructure to support the testing environment.
• Migrate existing test plans and frameworks over to AccelQ.
• Responsible for several applications including bank websites, security, and other bank applications.
• Ability to stand up a new testing practice and transition from manual testing
• Integrates AccelQ with the CI/CD pipeline to implement continuous automated testing.
• Designs and implements an automated regression test infrastructure that will support comprehensive testing (establish and maintain physical and/or virtual test automation labs for effective execution).
• Designs, develops, implements, and maintains automated test plans using AccelQ to enhance functional testing, regression testing, negative testing, integration testing, error/bug retests, and usability.
• Communicates to partners regularly on progress of work products, results, and overall project status.
• Evaluates the development of framework for automating functional testing.
• Evaluates test automation strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement (i.e. test automation frameworks, dynamic data collection methodologies, coding standards, components, and object repository methods, etc.).

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or similar technical field or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience working with AccelQ or any automated testing platforms in an enterprise environment
• 2+ years of experience implementing automated testing for AWS hosted custom solutions
• Understanding of the Agile software testing process and lifecycle, from smoke test to integration to production deployment.
• Use Accel Q and GitLab to create an automated tests to run in the CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in supporting mission critical applications in production
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of design patterns and frameworks
• Familiar with software security principals and defensive coding and testing standard processes
• Must be a U.S Citizen or a Green Card holder with intent to become a U.S Citizen.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid Understanding with Git repositories and automated deployments
• Experience with UiPath and/or other RPA tools.

Base Salary Range: Min: $104,400 - Mid: $135,400- Max: $166,700 (Location: San Francisco) Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

We offer a wonderful benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account, Backup Childcare Program, Pre-Tax Day Care Flexible Spending Account, Paid Family Care Leave, Vacation Days, Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Pet Insurance, Matching 401(k), and Retirement/Pension.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

The SF Fed is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Full Time / Part TimeFull time

Regular / TemporaryRegular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes

Job CategoryInformation Technology

Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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